Chapter 222: Only Through Competition Can There Be Mutual Progress

Yanyinjianchang.

The atmosphere was somewhat deadlocked.

A crowd of players glared at Lin Bai, even using private chats to discuss not making a move to see what Lin Bai would do when the time came.

Lin Bai was not in a hurry either; he watched them quietly, then turned his head to the little fox and said, "Xiaobai, start the timer."

"Yes, Master." The little white fox replied crisply. Seeing the players being manipulated by Lin Bai, her mood felt much more refreshed. Sure enough, Master was the most formidable; there was no problem that could stump him.

……

Time ticked away.

Watching Lin Bai's expression grow colder and colder, 【Baiyin】 had no choice but to open the team voice chat: "Brothers, fight! Perhaps we will find new opportunities in the Mining Pit! Even if there are no opportunities, Medicine King Valley has merged into the Justice Alliance, and there will be plenty of pills to increase cultivation. Even if we delete our accounts and start over, it will be easier than now. If we don't give Lin Bai some face, everyone will be the one to suffer."

In the end, he couldn't help but offer the players an idea.

"Laobai, don't you dare deny it when the time comes; we all have recordings here!" a player said.

"Rest assured, we are a team; we will not abandon anyone," 【Baiyin】 said.

"What about compensation for deleting accounts?" another player asked.

"……" 【Baiyin】 hesitated for a moment, "There will be."

"How much?" the previous player pressed.

"Finance is not under my control." Looking at these aggressive players, 【Baiyin】 suddenly regretted standing out just now. Sure enough, this group of people had no concept of a collective at all; they should have just been left to accept their punishment. He snorted and said coldly, "The only thing I can promise is what I just said; the specific compensation must be discussed by everyone. I just want you to know one thing: if you don't make a move now and let Lin Bai expel you all from the Beggar Sect, there won't be any compensation at all..."

Lin Bai naturally heard the players' conversation; he glanced at 【Baiyin】 without speaking.

Some things were unavoidable.

In games, high-level players carrying low-level players was the most common thing; what truly made players feel the pain still had to rely on System Skill...

However.

With Medicine King Valley in his hands, controlling the pills and pill formulas was enough to give these players a hard time.

……

Having obtained 【Baiyin】's promise.

The players were too lazy to continue resisting.

After all.

Half of them had a chance to continue retaining their current levels and status.

This was enough for them to risk their lives once.

As long as there was even the slightest possibility, no one was willing to go back and start over.

Isn't it just a player PK?

It's not like we haven't played it before!

Since entering the game.

We haven't had a proper PK yet!

Let's play!

When 【Longxi】 slapped a player next to him, the chaotic battle began immediately.

……

"Fuck your mother! Sneak attack, do you have any martial virtue?"

"Qinglong Group, team up! Kill the high-level ones first, otherwise none of us will have a chance."

"Lao Meng, where is the Peiyuan Pill? Give your brother one, damn it, I'm at low health."

"Fuck your mother, making me go dig in the mines; I'm deleting my account once I get the compensation."

"Who the fuck shot a Rejuvenation Arrow at me?"

"Lin Bai is my lifelong enemy; one day, I will definitely tear him into ten thousand pieces."

……

Residual dragon energy flew everywhere.

Poison-laced Rejuvenation Pills and Rejuvenation Arrows zipped back and forth, interspersed with all kinds of cursing.

The Yanyinjianchang was in a state of chaos.

Before long, the players forgot their frustration and completely fell into a frenzy.

From time to time, players would fall to the ground and return to the Resurrection Point, waiting to be sent to mine like they were mourning their parents; some simply logged off to contact 【Gugao Laoren】 to discuss compensation.

With high-level players carrying them, deleting an account became less terrifying, but the necessary compensation could not be missing. 【Baiyin】 couldn't make the call, but 【Old Man Gugao】 certainly could...

……

The messy scene made 【Baiyin】 sigh. He shook his head: "Old Gu is right; this group of guys is too greedy. It's a complete free-for-all; they didn't show any coordination at all. They are simply a mob; taking them out to PK, they wouldn't be a match for those corporate players."

"Laobai, you were impulsive," 【Deng Li Buduo】 said.

"What else could I do? Keep deadlocked and let Lin Bai drive everyone out in the end?" 【Baiyin】 said angrily, "We are the high-level members of the Beggar Sect; we should at least try to recover some impression points!"

"Don't listen to him, Laobai, you did the right thing; appeasing Lin Bai is the priority." 【I Am Not A Small Account】 looked at the farce before him and said, "Old Gu is also right; the most urgent task is to gradually get rid of the dependence on Lin Bai."

【Bitter Melon Vine】 said regretfully: "It's a pity we didn't contact any advertising sponsors; we missed the chance to make money during the first big player brawl. Such a pity."

"……" the players.

……

Killing the chicken to warn the monkey.

It wasn't just the players being warned, but also the natives present.

Watching the players slaughter each other on the Yanyinjianchang, Ma Changcheng of Medicine King Valley tactfully presented war reparations to Lin Bai.

The players didn't even have a Golden Core among them; fighting in a chaotic melee, no matter how flashy their moves were, in the eyes of these Nascent Soul experts.

It was equivalent to chickens pecking at each other; it couldn't pique their interest at all. It was better to take the opportunity to do some real work.

……

To tell the truth.

If the private chats of the players during their fights didn't provide him with useful information, Lin Bai wouldn't even look at them.

With Ma Changcheng sending over the pill formulas, his attention shifted to the system tasks.

He flipped through the pill formulas.

The tasks of the Divine Doctor System, which had been stagnant for a long time, made rapid progress:

……

【You have obtained the Wudu Pill formula; Reward: Divine Wood King Tripod (already issued)】

【You have obtained the Qudu Pill formula; Reward: Eye of Breaking Miasma (already issued)】

【You have obtained the Qingxin Pill formula; Reward: Pill Appraisal Technique (already issued)】

【You have obtained the Qi and Blood Pill formula; Reward: Jiemai Technique (already issued)】

【You have obtained the Yanshou Pill formula; Reward: Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace (this furnace can increase pill quality by ten percent, can be extracted at any time)】

【You have obtained the Zengqi Pill formula; Reward: Yin Yang Fan (this fan can increase fire control techniques by ten percent, can be extracted at any time)】

【Your Medicine Dao has achieved some success; you should benefit the world, use your pills to save lives, and obtain the title of Famous Doctor within a country; Reward: Palm Flame】

……

A series of task completion notifications.

The Divine Doctor System rewarded Lin Bai with a pile of junk.

From the perspective of an alchemist, things like the Divine Wood King Tripod, the Bagua Furnace, and the Yin Yang Fan were good items. But at this moment, Lin Bai was more keen on conquering the world and expanding his influence; he didn't have much interest in Pill Refinement.

Besides.

Since Medicine King Valley had ready-made Blood Recovery Pills and Spirit Returning Pills, he was even less inclined to refine pills himself.

Perhaps when the Divine Doctor System reached completion in the future, he would refine some high-level pills himself.

Right now, there was absolutely no need.

After all, the civilization of this world had developed for tens of thousands of years, and pills were already quite mature; he could just take them and use them.

Nowadays, Lin Bai still insisted on doing tasks because he was after the system rewards.

The system rewards were varied, and one never knew when a certain reward might come in handy.

More skills are never a burden.

Moreover, to get the later rewards, Lin Bai had to complete tasks step by step. Fortunately, his Justice Alliance was already quite large, and many system tasks could be completed incidentally; the rewards were like picking them up for free, so he really didn't need to put much thought into it.

It couldn't exactly be called picking them up for free.

After all, he had done the groundwork, so it was normal for it to be easier when it came time to harvest.

……

Counting the task rewards of the Divine Doctor System, the only ones he could use for the time being were the Pill Appraisal Technique and the Eye of Breaking Miasma.

The Pill Appraisal Technique could ensure he wouldn't use fake pills.

And the function of the Eye of Breaking Miasma was to allow him to easily distinguish the properties of the poisonous gases that permeated the air.

This function was quite practical; at the very least, it could save his nose and keep him from being disfigured on the battlefield.

Medicine King Valley, like Hundred Flowers Valley, was not very good at fighting and relied entirely on pills.

Poison Pills were their primary method of combat.

When Cultivators fought, they naturally couldn't run over and feed Poison Pills to others; they usually used throwing or ambush methods to make the Poison Pills burst, forming poisonous mist to kill or injure the enemy.

The composition of the poisonous mist was complex; some entered the body through breathing, some entered the body through the skin by adhesion, some had colors, and some were simply invisible and odorless...

It was impossible to guard against.

It was just that this time, Medicine King Valley's power hadn't been unleashed before Lin Bai sent them to heaven.

Otherwise.

If they had managed to deploy it, it wouldn't have been easy for an inexperienced Lin Bai to deal with.

But now with the Eye of Breaking Miasma, the poisonous mist held no more secrets for him.

At that time, if he carried some antidote pills, unless he encountered an unsolvable poison, the poisonous mist would generally be unable to do anything to him.

As for a universal antidote pill?

Medicine King Valley didn't have one either!

Medicine King Valley did have a cultivation technique for a physique immune to all poisons, but Lin Bai was not a player; relying on his own cultivation was far less efficient than grinding system tasks!

……

However.

There was a limit to "wool-gathering."

After flipping through a few pill formulas, the Divine Doctor System no longer let him continue studying formulas and shifted to the fame-seeking stage, catching up with the task progress of other systems.

There was no need to worry about this; the fame-seeking tasks could be integrated and completed simultaneously.

……

The players soon decided the winner.

The winner went without saying.

As for the players who lost, except for a portion interested in mining, most logged off directly, not even showing their faces.

【The Big Brother's career is in a crisis, the Beggar Sect is wavering, and the members are confused about the future; please assist the Big Brother in restoring the confidence of the Beggar Sect members; Reward: 50 Luck】

Lin Bai had just prepared to encourage the winner a few words, but before he could speak, the Beggar Sect, which had been providing him with Luck Value step by step, suddenly popped up a new crisis notification.

Damn it!

Lin Bai's old face darkened; this damn thing had actually sabotaged him!

He has been able to make it this far, and he does not know how much of a role his Qi Luck Value has played in it, so his big brother's career must be stable.

But for him to do something that would be a slap in his own face, that is absolutely impossible!

When a company becomes slack and stops striving for progress, what should be done?

Naturally, it is to create a competitor for them to spur them forward...

And so.

Lin Bai cast his gaze toward the players watching the excitement around the Yanyinjianchang, those players who had joined the Chaoyuan Sword Sect at the recruitment fair.

"Don't think that just because you are standing here, the matter is over. It is because I have been too indulgent with you that the current mistakes have occurred. Only with competition can there be progress. I intend to establish a new Justice Alliance Army outside of the Beggar Sect, selected from the disciples of the various sects, guided by the sect leaders of each faction, to assist the Beggar Sect in the affairs and publicity of the Justice Alliance." Lin Bai looked around at the players who were still standing and smiled faintly, "The Beggar Sect and the Justice Alliance Army will supervise each other and progress together in the future. Whoever performs well will have the resources of the Justice Sect tilted toward them. I hope you will conduct yourselves well..."

"Holy shit!"

The expressions of 【Silver】 and the others changed instantly. They looked at each other, finally realizing the true severity of the situation.

Lin Bai founded this so-called Alliance Army to nominally assist them, but it was clearly meant to make them compete against the Beggar Sect!

【Silver】 and the others did not know that the Beggar Sect was tied to Lin Bai's Qi Luck mission. Seeing the newly established Alliance Army, they all secretly groaned. If they could not regain Lin Bai's trust, the Beggar Sect would likely be truly marginalized.

Previously.

Players who had joined the major sects thought they could escape Lin Bai's control and experience the joy of the game from another perspective.

But before they could even find the knack for the game.

Lin Bai led the Beggar Sect and wiped out their sects like a hot knife through butter.

This left the players full of anxiety about the future.

Although there were many Beggar Sect undercover agents among them, and although they had also joined the Beggar Sect's advertising alliance and gained quite a few benefits from it, they were not core members of the Beggar Sect after all. Now that they were being integrated, they were worried about what to do in the future.

Unexpectedly, the Beggar Sect's wild maneuvers sent them a big gift.

A joy falling from the sky.

Players like 【Huangye Lang】, 【First Sword Immortal】, 【Jinshe Langjun】, and 【Dan Sheng】 suddenly possessed a status on par with 【Gugao Laoren】. They were practically going crazy with joy, and one after another, they vied to pledge their loyalty to Lin Bai...

Who didn't know that following Lin Bai meant wealth!

They could do the things the Beggar Sect did too. As long as they relied on superior business capabilities to squeeze out the Beggar Sect, they would be the new darlings of the Xianxia World.

A new official brings three new fires.

After 【Huangye Lang】 and the others finished pledging their loyalty, they immediately ran off to integrate the players and set up new advertising departments, media departments, combat departments...

The people of the Beggar Sect were not to be outdone. Realizing the crisis, 【Gugao Laoren】, seeing that his golden rice bowl was about to be snatched away, no longer cared whether Lin Bai would harm the players. He logged on immediately, personally worked with the Beggar Sect members, and coordinated the various tasks Lin Bai had previously deployed.

The fourth issue of "Justice Weekly" was being rushed out with overtime work;

With large amounts of money being thrown out, the players stationed in the four Basic Cities began a new round of commercial layout. The Justice Alliance Alchemy Workshop, Artifact Refining Workshop, restaurants, and other basic commercial layouts were all prepared and constructed in one go.

No matter what, the Beggar Sect's basic business could not be lost.

He had to take advantage of the moment when the Justice Alliance Army had just been established, having neither funds nor advertising business, to earn back the impression points the Beggar Sect had lost with Lin Bai.

【The Beggar Sect is united as one and has regained its cohesion; the crisis in the big brother's career is resolved; Reward: Qi Luck (50)】

【Expand the Beggar Sect's fame further and possess the ability to fight at a high level; Reward: Qi Luck (50)】

That night.

Two notifications came to his mind, making Lin Bai heave a sigh of relief. He had pulled his big brother's career back onto the right track.

Sure enough.

It was correct to have competition among the players.

By dividing the players into two factions, as long as there were conflicts of interest between them, the situation of secretly tripping each other up should be temporarily resolved. He was indeed a genius.

(End of chapter)